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Suspect he was the son of Capt. Joshua Walker Jr. and Mary Whitmore of Rindge, Cheshire, NH who was the son of Joshua Walker and Mary Proctor - DAR Lineage books say that Joshua Walker, who had fought in earlier wars, commanded a company at Lexington and died 1798 at Woburn where he was born in 1728 Joshua Jr (proposed father of William Whitmore Walker) was the eldest of 5 brothers who served in the war and died at Rindge NH in 1825 at the age of 74.
In son Charles Walker's biography found in Chicago: Its History and Its Builders it states: Mr. Walker started upon life's journey almost with the opening of the nineteenth century, his birth having occurred in Otsego county, New York, February 2, 1802. His parents were Colonel William W. and Lucretia (Ferrell) Walker, both natives of Massachusetts. The Walkers are of English ancestry—a family prominent in Cromwell's time and also during the early colonization of New England, where representatives of the name lived as early as 1640. The grandfather of Charles Walker removed from Massachusetts to Rindge, New Hampshire, where he conducted successful operations as a dealer in cattle. His son, Colonel Walker, left the New England home in which he had been reared to seek his fortune in central New York, settling at Plainfield, Otsego county, when that district was then a wilderness. In the course of an active life he attained almost everything that men covet as of value—success in business, prominence in political life, honors in the church. His high purpose and principles ever commanded the respect of his fellowmen and he placed before all else the question of Christian duty and privilege. "His parents, realizing that his school advantages were very little, instructed him during the long winter evenings, and he made such progress in his studies that at the early age of fifteen he was qualified for and began teaching—a profession which he followed through the winter months until he attained his majority. When eighteen years of age he began devoting his leisure hours to the study of law, but close confinement impaired his health and at the advice of physicians he gave up the idea of becoming a representative of the legal profession." References
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